Open Source Web Design Templates and Tools
The open source is a great way to implement the newest ideas and latest concepts into design.
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Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates
- OSWD – is a collection of web designs submitted by the community that anyone can download free of charge. Currently has 2080 free designs.
- OpenWebDesign – is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place. It has 2425 designs total.
- CSS Tinderbox – is an effort to support open source web design by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates that web designers and web developers can use as the foundation for their own projects.
- Open Design Community -is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing hundreds of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download.
Web Design Templates
- Template Monster – is a high-quality set of web, flash, and blog templates, with over 5,000 website template designs.
- MasterTemplates – provides professionally designed free website layouts along with PowerPoint templates.
- Flash-template-Design – is one of the highest quality collection of flash templates and web design templates.
- TemplateNavigator – is the largest catalogue of free website and flash templates, along with quality preview shots.
- TemplateBox – offers over 300 freebie website, logo, banner, and flash templates to complement their collection.
- Free Website Templates – a large collection of templates that don’t require a reciprocal link.
- Free CSS Templates – is a strong resource which is frequently updated with new submissions. It is free but require a reciprocal link.
- Effex-Media -is a free website templates with a massive list is categorized by website type and includes user reviews of many of the templates.
- TemplateWorld -is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layouts designed by Template World designers.
- Steve’s Templates – offers a dozens of templates, free with link back.
- Templatespace – offers website templates, CSS templates, Flash templates, logo templates, photoshop web designs, newsletter templates and abstract images.
- Sunnyflash – offers high quality and affordable pre-made flash templates that will add value to any web page.
- TemplateWorkz – offers 48 freebie web templates, along with some basic logo and newsletter templates.
- Free Layouts – hosts 500 templates.
- Free Templates Online – proposes dozens of easily customizable templates categorized by theme.
- Web Design Helper – offers full page templates including the graphics and code.
- FreekTemplates.com – offers free and professional website templates for successful web development.
Blog Themes and Templates
- Bloggingthemes – is a distributor of blog theme-templates. All of themes are provided free of charge.
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- Adsenseblogthemes -10 unique blog themes and start earning money with Google Adsense in just a few minutes!
- Blogger Templates – a collection of Blogger templates on a wide variety of themes.
- Blogfashions – allows to view, download any of the blog templates (including images) featured on this site.
- WP Themes – is a website for sharing the wordpress themes.
CSS Layouts
- Layout Gala – is a set of 40 layouts that we’ve thought worth sharing: on each of them you’ll find also a download link (if you want, you can download the entire collection, 40 HTML pages in a single zip file).
- Glish – is a collection of CSS Layout Techniques which have been stripped down to the bare essentials.
- Maxdesign – is a range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts – free to use and abuse as needed.
- CSS Library -is a list of tableless, CSS based page templates to quickly define the skeleton of your pages.
- Mollio – is a set of html/css templates.
- The Layout Reservoir – simple, straightforward, and manipulable 2 and 3 column layouts.
- Ruthsarian Layouts – offeres to you royalty free, copyright free, and warranty free so that you might learn and enjoy working with CSS-based layouts.
- IntensiveStation – is a collection of all new basic CSS templates.
Open Source Web Design Programs
- Nvu – makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
- Bluefish – is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners that supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
- Cssed – is a small developer editor and validator, that tries to ease the CSS editing. It has some support for HTML (with embbeded Javascript), XML, Javascript, Java, PHP, JSP, C, C++, Apache configuration files, .htaccess, Python, Perl, SQL, SH and other languages.
- GIMPShop – is a free Open Source image editor that is similar to the popular Adobe Photoshop.
Automated CSS Tools and Generators
- CSS Creator – easy to use CSS layout generator with options for fluid or fixed width floated column layout.
- Strange Banana – is a generator that automatically creates graphic webpage designs
- Maketemplate – creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer. This PHP / CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs full featured tableless code i.e. tables are NOT used for the template with the column layout.
- IBDjohn – yields a three column layout without using any Tables. This HTML & CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs a full featured 3 column template.
- WordPress Theme Generator – creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.
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August 9 at 2:20 pm
I like the new designs at http://www.opensourcetemplates.org
Im surprised this site is not on the list imo
August 9 at 10:25 pm
My favorite is TemplateMonster, I recommend it to everyone.
August 20 at 1:07 pm
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August 22 at 4:46 am
OSWD has always been the best source for good css templates.
June 29 at 2:59 pm
pls i will it if you can send me a some few web template designs.thanks.
August 18 at 10:21 am
amazing templetes for the designers who are in search of good designing templetes